Artistic intervention “Corpus alienum” reflects on Slovak socialist past and today’s attitude of the society towards it. The key object of the project is the plaster statue of Lenin which comes from the period when the building of Pisztory Palace was a seat of the Lenin’s Museum. Two loudspeakers are installed inside the statue. During the public presentation the figure of Lenin is “brought to life” through the audio collage composed of various sounds of manual work and fragmentary dialogues of two workers.

artistsMaja Štefančíková, Nóra Ružičková, Adam Novota
placePisztoryho palác
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castNóra Ružičková
cameraMaja Štefančíková
soundMaja Štefančíková, Peter Barényi
editingMaja Štefančíková
interviewPeter Barényi
translationMichaela Wickleinová
categoryReports
published6. 3. 2014
languageČesky / English
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Corpus Alienum
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